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Avène vs Environ

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Avène and Environ are specialized skincare brands known for supporting overall skin health through carefully crafted treatments. The French brand founded in 1990 offers gentle moisturizers, protective sunscreens, targeted serums, and soothing cleansers formulated with glycerin, while the other is widely loved for its luxurious masks and advanced formulas. Both lines suit different needs best, with the former suiting oily acne-prone and combination skin, and the latter suiting sensitive, dry, and mature skin. They differ in their standout products and key ingredients, where the former uses glycerin to improve hydration and restore barrier function through items like the Tolerance Control Soothing Skin Recovery Balm, the Cleanance, and the Hyaluron Activ B3 Concentrated Plumping Serum, and the latter features the Tri BioBotanical Revival Masque for acne-prone concerns.

Avène is a French skincare brand founded in 1990 and owned by Fondation Pierre Fabre.

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This page compares some of the most popular Avène and Environ products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Popular Avène vs Environ products

Questions and answers

Avène or Environ: which is better?

Avène is better on this page, offering fifteen products featuring ingredients like glycerin that helps hydrate the skin compared to Environ which only lists one mask. Avène fits best for oily acne-prone skin, combination skin, and acne-prone skin.

Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology, 2017

What is the difference between Avène and Environ?

Avène offers a wide variety of skincare products on this page across multiple categories like cleansers, moisturizers, and sunscreens, whereas Environ features only a single mask product listed. Additionally, nearly half of Avène's products on this page contain fragrance, while every product listed for Environ is fragrance-free.

Which is more affordable, Avène or Environ?

When comparing the products on this page, reviewers sometimes note that Avène has a high price point, while affordability details for Environ are not specified in the available page facts.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Avène or Environ?

When it comes to breakouts, Avène fits acne-prone skin with High to Average Lovi fit levels across multiple cleansers, sunscreens, and serums on this page, whereas Environ only features a single mask with an Average fit. Avène also offers broad options formulated specifically for oily and acne-prone skin types.

How many products from Avène contain no fragrance compared to Environ?

On the products on this page, 7 of 15 Avène products list no fragrance compared to every product from Environ.

Which brand was founded in France and is owned by Fondation Pierre Fabre?

Avène was founded in France in 1990 and is owned by Fondation Pierre Fabre.

What is the Lovi fit level of the Eau Thermale Thermal Spring Water for dry sensitive skin?

Lovi rates the Eau Thermale Thermal Spring Water as having a Superior fit level for dry sensitive skin.

Research behind their key ingredients

Behind this comparison

Lovi compares products by their fit scores, calculated from the full ingredient list with brand-independent rules our dermatologists and cosmetic chemists build and review, and personalizes every pick with AI trained on the real results of millions of users. Lovi trains its fit score models on a proprietary dataset built from more than 10,000 expert-labeled products and more than 100,000 simulated examples, following an internally consistent methodology presented at Cosmoprof, AMWC, and Skin of Color Update.

  • Nadia Kapleva, MS

    Nadia Kapleva, MS

    Co-founder, Medical Director

    Cosmetic chemist, cosmetologist, aesthetic products developer

  • Alexey Shagraev, PhD

    Alexey Shagraev, PhD

    Co-founder, CEO and CTO

    PhD in computer science, 3x US patent holder, ex-Google, ex-Yandex

  • Dr. Sofía Perea Pérez, MD, MSc

    Dr. Sofía Perea Pérez, MD, MSc

    Medical Board

    Aesthetic medicine practitioner, MSc in Longevity and Anti-Aging Medicine

  • Aishani Shah, MD

    Aishani Shah, MD

    Medical Board

    Specialist dermatologist, MBBS, MD, IFAAD

  • Asya Zubkova, MS

    Asya Zubkova, MS

    Medical Board

    Cosmetic chemist, SCS, IFSCC member

  • Hanna Kurets, MD

    Hanna Kurets, MD

    Medical Board, Medical Advisor

    Dermatology MD

  • Elina Nazarenko, MD

    Elina Nazarenko, MD

    Medical Board

    Dermatology and diagnostic consultant

  • Victoria Derkova, MS

    Victoria Derkova, MS

    Medical Board

    Cosmetic chemist, cosmetic development technologist

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